Stop Aiming For The Shield! Everything Wrong With 'Captain America: The First Avenger'.

Chris Evan’s Captain America is probably my favorite Marvel movie character. He’s just a nice, decent guy without all the snark and melodrama of your Tony Starks or Bruce Banners. That said, I didn’t like the first Captain America movie much at all. It looked nice, but the plot was just a mass of clichés — a faded, tattered copy of a copy of a copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

So yeah, I appreciate the Cinema Sins folks sitting down to enumerate just how dumb Captain America: The First Avenger really was. Check it out below…

I dunno, Nate. Goodhearted, square superhero who stands for truth/justice/American way – Cap is Marvel’s answer to Supes. They captured the spirit of that kind of character better than anyone else has.

It also helps that he “died” saving a city from annihilation preventing thousands of deaths, not punch bad guys through an annihilated city no doubt littered with corpses.

Also, yes. My God do I wish the entirety of Man of Steel was montage. Anything over endless barrage of action with no actual thrills or excitement to them. There’s got to be a supercut out there that makes MOS watchable.

The fact that they comment on the grenade scene as a problem… Man, you guys just don’t understand how stories work. That was one of my favourite scenes in the entire movie and sums the character up perfectly.

Why in the world would you want someone who thinks of the safety of others to get superpowers? Other than they would be a great selfless choice to be a superhero.

You’re absolutely right. That scene sums up the character perfectly, and those folks up there don’t get it. Especially since jumping 10 feet away from a grenade hardly puts you at a safe distance. Additionally why should anyone assume that a grenade on a military base during a war isn’t live ordinance? A loose grenade like that could have meant a dozen injuries. Steve did the right thing.